English
The English School at Somerville is a thriving community of lively, thoughtful and enthusiastic readers and writers. Somerville has a long history of brilliant authors and scholars. Many famous novelists......
Oxford’s department is widely regarded as one of the leading Psychology departments in the UK, hosting research groups in fields as diverse as neuroscience, language, and psychological disorders. Teaching Somerville’s......
The Law School at Somerville provides students with challenging courses of legal study in a friendly and supportive environment. We encourage talented students from all backgrounds to apply, and do......
Linguistics is the systematic, scientific study of human language, its structure, and its uses. Linguists study many different aspects of language including sounds, words, sentence structure, and meaning. A linguist’s......
Senior Research Fellow in Linguistics Frans Plank was for many years Professor of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Konstanz, Germany, retiring in 2017. At Oxford, he is......
Academic Visitor and Consultant Anita Mehta is an Academic Visitor and Consultant at the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics. Professor Mehta is a theoretical physicist of complex systems: in......
The study of modern foreign languages was pioneered in Oxford by women’s colleges like Somerville. While Somerville is now a college for both men and women, we have maintained our......
Our college was named after the Scottish mathematician Mary Somerville, and we maintain a strong a record in the subject. Most undergraduates who come up to read Mathematics or one......